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' No. 381,-1Z0.

( No Model I I M. DEVQY, (FASTER ATTACHMENT FOR STOVE$ 0R. FURNITURE.

* Patented Apia I MARTIN DEvoY, OF sYRAoUsaNEw YORK:

QASTER AiTTAC H M ENT F RLSTQVES on FURNITURE;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,120, dated April 17,1888,

Application filed August 26, 1887. Serial No. 247,891. No model.) 7

leg; Fig. 3, a rear elevation of my device, and Fig.4 a side elevation thereof as provided with a cam-lever and springplate.

Similarletters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views. 7 t

- My invention relates to the application of casters to stoves and other articles of heavy furniture with a View of making them portable wheneverdesired; and my object is to provide any article of heavy house or office furniture with caster attachments which will per-j mit'thc article to stand uponits legs and in dependent of the casters, and be readily adapted to stand upon the casters and not directly upon the legs; 7

It consists in the several novel features of construction and combinations of elements my invention.

\ A represents a stove-legattached to the base Across the lower end of the leg- 1 of a stove.

' and behind it I insert a pin or b0lt,'2, which also passes through the front arm, 3, of the stud or spring, 5, integral with it or secured to it. In the angle of this angular-leverI 1nsert the shank of the caster 6, and through or UNITED STATES" PATENT OFF C 1 f angular lever 4. This arm is provided witha I screw or cam-lever, 7, in such manner that'the screw or cam will bear against the leg and when screwed up will throw the upper arm'of the angular leverinward and the frontarrn and stud outward against theleg and raise that leg clear from the'floor, the castertaking the place of the leg in supportingthe stove,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-,

1. A caster attachment for stoves andfun.

niture, consisting of a leg, an angularlever having arfront arm journaled upon an arbor' transverse to the leg, and an upper arm pro" vided with a hand-screw bearing against the leg and adapted to force the upper arm back from the leg, anda caster mounted in the angle'of the lever, combined and operating subk. stantially as described.- o.

2. In a caster attachmentfor stoves-and furniture, the combination, with a legfthereof, of,

an angular lever having a front arm journaledj upon an arbor transverse to the leg and provided with a stud, 5, and an upper arm provided with a hand screw bearing against the 'leg and adapted to force the upper arm back 0 from the leg and the stud against it, and a hand this 13th day of August, 1887.

Inpresence of WM. 0. RAYMOND," WM. BooN.

caster mounted in the angle of the levcr,.substantially as described. In witness whereof I have hereunto set'my 7 5 

